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January 18, 2011 2:07 PM

Grameen's Muhammad Yunus in court for defamation case

Bangladesh's micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus appeared briefly in a court accused of defamation. The founder of Grameen Bank is charged over comments he made about Bangladeshi politicians in a 2007 media interview. The Nobel peace laureate's remarks were published in several newspapers...

January 18, 2011 2:07 PM

Grameen's Muhammad Yunus in court for defamation case

Bangladesh's micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus appeared briefly in a court accused of defamation. The founder of Grameen Bank is charged over comments he made about Bangladeshi politicians in a 2007 media interview. The Nobel peace laureate's remarks were published in several newspapers...

January 18, 2011 2:06 PM

Rescue operation in affected areas in Brazil

The Brazilian military is stepping up its efforts to reach communities cut off by floods and landslides that killed more than six hundred and seventy people in the Serrana area, north of Rio de Janeiro, over the past week. A break in the rainy weather has allowed helicopters to get supplies and resc...

January 18, 2011 2:06 PM

Rescue operation in affected areas in Brazil

The Brazilian military is stepping up its efforts to reach communities cut off by floods and landslides that killed more than six hundred and seventy people in the Serrana area, north of Rio de Janeiro, over the past week. A break in the rainy weather has allowed helicopters to get supplies and resc...

January 18, 2011 2:06 PM

Rescue operation in affected areas in Brazil

The Brazilian military is stepping up its efforts to reach communities cut off by floods and landslides that killed more than six hundred and seventy people in the Serrana area, north of Rio de Janeiro, over the past week. A break in the rainy weather has allowed helicopters to get supplies and resc...

January 18, 2011 11:45 AM

Irish PM Brian Cowen to face secret leadership ballot

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he is confident of winning a vote within his party on his leadership. The secret ballot comes just months after Ireland was forced to seek an eighty five billion euro bail-out from the EU and IMF for its stricken economy. Members of parliament in Cowen'...

January 18, 2011 11:45 AM

Irish PM Brian Cowen to face secret leadership ballot

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he is confident of winning a vote within his party on his leadership. The secret ballot comes just months after Ireland was forced to seek an eighty five billion euro bail-out from the EU and IMF for its stricken economy. Members of parliament in Cowen'...

January 18, 2011 11:45 AM

Irish PM Brian Cowen to face secret leadership ballot

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he is confident of winning a vote within his party on his leadership. The secret ballot comes just months after Ireland was forced to seek an eighty five billion euro bail-out from the EU and IMF for its stricken economy. Members of parliament in Cowen'...

January 17, 2011 9:27 PM

China rejects reports of dispatching troops to North Korea

China has rejected a report that it is planning to dispatch troops to North Korea. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman today denied the claims in the report published by a South Korean newspaper as sheer fabrication. The report quoted a South Korean official as saying that Beijing and Pyongyang had...

January 17, 2011 9:27 PM

China rejects reports of dispatching troops to North Korea

China has rejected a report that it is planning to dispatch troops to North Korea. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman today denied the claims in the report published by a South Korean newspaper as sheer fabrication. The report quoted a South Korean official as saying that Beijing and Pyongyang had...

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